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>criminally associated with unlawful behaviour This is a crime? If a prostitute brings a john back to a hotel room, the police can arrest the hotel owner?

protomyth 10y ago
Hotels have legal protections, Airbnb frequently violates the rules and I wouldn't want to be the person caught in the middle when a local prosecutor wants to make that point.
johnchristopher 10y ago
I don't know about UK laws but where I live you would be suspected of helping and being active in a prostitution ring. But you are misquoting me a little bit.
- foldr 10y ago
  >I don't know about UK laws Probably best not to comment then? This thread is already full of people making the inaccurate assumption that prostitution is illegal in the UK.
  - johnchristopher 10y ago
    > >I don't know about UK laws > Probably best not to comment then? Quite the contrary.
dragonwriter 10y ago
> This is a crime? Yes, most places where either prostitution or brothel-keeping is a crime, the owner of a property used in it is potentially (mental state is an issue) committing a crime as well. > If a prostitute brings a john back to a hotel room, the police can arrest the hotel owner? In the US, Aside from that risk (which is real but attenuated by the low probability of a conviction because of the high criminal burden of proof) prostitution-related offenses are second only to drug-related offenses in the eagerness of law enforcement to use civil asset forfeiture against properties, including real property, used in the offense. For a regular commercial hotel, law enforcement would probably just use the possibility of such action as one among many tools to get the owner to actively cooperate with law enforcement, and it probably wouldn't get to actual seizure in a normal case. Whether similar technically noncriminal consequences associated with criminal activity apply to this situation (in the UK), I'm not sure, though I wouldn't be surprised.
DanieI 10y ago
There have been cases in the US where a hotel gets a bad reputation mostly because it's in a bad area and the police use civil asset forfeiture to take the property away from the owner.

protomyth 10y ago

Hotels have legal protections, Airbnb frequently violates the rules and I wouldn't want to be the person caught in the middle when a local prosecutor wants to make that point.

johnchristopher 10y ago

I don't know about UK laws but where I live you would be suspected of helping and being active in a prostitution ring. But you are misquoting me a little bit.

foldr 10y ago
>I don't know about UK laws Probably best not to comment then? This thread is already full of people making the inaccurate assumption that prostitution is illegal in the UK.
- johnchristopher 10y ago
  > >I don't know about UK laws > Probably best not to comment then? Quite the contrary.

dragonwriter 10y ago

> This is a crime? Yes, most places where either prostitution or brothel-keeping is a crime, the owner of a property used in it is potentially (mental state is an issue) committing a crime as well. > If a prostitute brings a john back to a hotel room, the police can arrest the hotel owner? In the US, Aside from that risk (which is real but attenuated by the low probability of a conviction because of the high criminal burden of proof) prostitution-related offenses are second only to drug-related offenses in the eagerness of law enforcement to use civil asset forfeiture against properties, including real property, used in the offense. For a regular commercial hotel, law enforcement would probably just use the possibility of such action as one among many tools to get the owner to actively cooperate with law enforcement, and it probably wouldn't get to actual seizure in a normal case. Whether similar technically noncriminal consequences associated with criminal activity apply to this situation (in the UK), I'm not sure, though I wouldn't be surprised.

DanieI 10y ago

There have been cases in the US where a hotel gets a bad reputation mostly because it's in a bad area and the police use civil asset forfeiture to take the property away from the owner.